According to The Truth About Cars, Dodge will soon kill off its aging Avenger sedan to clear the way for its far newer Dart. At a lower price point and available with more power (it can be optioned with the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6), the Avenger has been cutting into sales of Dodge’s newer Dart. The Avenger has been on sale in pretty much the same form since 2008—although it did get a decent overhaul for 2011—but long ago established itself as the car of choice for folks named Hertz and Avis.

We might add that Dodge’s alleged future move to euthanize the Avenger makes a ton of sense given parent company Chrysler’s replacement of the Avenger-based 200 with the new Dart-based 200. No sense keeping an old platform—that’s more or less the same size as the Dart—around, especially without the economies of scale brought by a Chrysler-badged version. Last year, Dodge found a little more than 93,000 buyers for Avengers but 10,000-plus fewer buyers for the Dart—you see the problem. We figure the Avenger will quietly die after the 2014 model year.